I’ll start with the mother of all oxymorons:
jumboshrimp,
what’s your favorite,
Larry
Oxymorons:
Army Intelligence
Neo-classic
Deafening silence
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
And how about spoonerisms:
“He’s a real fart smeller.”
“…a bunch of cunning runts.”
“I think you have it bass-ackwards.”
A fellow named Sheb Wooley used to do parodies of stories under the name of “Ben Colder”; the one that immediately comes to mind is “Beeping Sleauty and the Pansome Hrince”, but he did several take-offs.
And here are some examples of malapropism:
“I think that it’s a mute point.”
“Don’t take that fellow for granite.”
And then there are some expressions that could have come out of the mouth of Yogi Berra:
“Never eat on an empty stomach.”
“You’re skating on thin water.”
My favorite oxymoron is high-school education.
possibly the world’s only naive cynic
Pretty ugly
Awfully good
Original copy
Initial conclusion
Seriously funny
And, of course, my favorite: Bad beer.
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What? No one mentioned Hot Chili?
German Humor.
Bad Accident
Bad Cold
Congressional Ethics
This is stretching it, but: a song called “Ironic” that lists a bunch of situations that aren’t ironic.
The best oxymoron is “rap music”
Microsoft Works.
A lawyer wrote a humorous book about his profession, in which he includes these oxymorons:
Scholar-athlete
Amtrak schedule
Military intelligence
Legal ethics
Justice Rehnquist
Authentic replica
Video library
Business casual
Semi formal
White chocolate
ex-addict.
What’s the word for needless total repetition? (e.g. a contradictary oxymoron)
Hospital food,
and BTW Handy, you’re mistaken about recovering addicts,
Larry
What about “Civil War?”
Wordsmith: One of the elite few who knows that George Herbert Walker Bush was a Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog.
Anyone who has ever used this company to ship anything will immediately know it’s name itself as an oxymoron:
Airbourne Express
Brian O’Neill
CMC International Records
rockuniverse.com/cmc/cmc.html
ICQ 35294890
AIM Scrabble1
Yahoo Messenger Brian_ONeill
Oh, alright then. Scratch ‘exaddict’ add,
‘recovering addict.’
No offence ivick.
guest host
used by The Tonight Show whenever someone would stand in for johnny carson.
glee…redundant?